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19 The plot of ground on which he had pitched his tent he bought for a hundred pieces of money[a] from the descendants of Hamor, the father of Shechem.(A)

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  1. 33:19 Pieces of money: in Hebrew, qesita, a monetary unit of which the value is unknown. Descendants of Hamor: Hamorites, “the people of Hamor”; cf. Jgs 9:28. Hamor was regarded as the eponymous ancestor of the pre-Israelite inhabitants of Shechem.

19 For a hundred pieces of silver,[a] he bought from the sons of Hamor,(A) the father of Shechem,(B) the plot of ground(C) where he pitched his tent.(D)

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  1. Genesis 33:19 Hebrew hundred kesitahs; a kesitah was a unit of money of unknown weight and value.

When Shechem, son of Hamor the Hivite,[a] the leader of the region, saw her, he seized her and lay with her by force.

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  1. 34:2 Hivite: the Greek text has “Horite”; the terms were apparently used indiscriminately to designate the Hurrian or other non-Semitic elements in Palestine.

When Shechem(A) son of Hamor(B) the Hivite,(C) the ruler of that area, saw her, he took her and raped her.(D)

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